Ibex / Tule Valley Hardpan

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Airstrip Info

Frequency	122.90
Elevation	4748 ft
Lat/Long	38.9834, -113.3666 38° 59.004' , -113° 21.996'
Runway All	10000 ft x 3000 ft Hardpan
Ownership	BLM

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Information updated April 22, 2019 @ 5:27pm

Description: The Tule Valley Hardpan (aka Ibex) is a large dry lake bed just west of Sevier Dry Lake. Ibex is one of the three back country airstrips included in the State's "FLY UTAH Passport Program". To learn more, head to their website.

The Ibex Hardpan Briefing guide is available here.

Runway: Generally pilots land north/south on the area south of the island that rises about 200 feet above the hardpan.

Approach Considerations: Rapidly rising terrain west of the landing surface.

Amenities: None

Windsock: Yes, located atop the island.

Scott Beeson visited 1 year ago in a C210 with 600x6 tires

Super smooth on northern half of lakebed. Very little dust. Totally dry. No problem for tires of any size with or without wheel pants. Southern half of lakebed has somewhat larger cracks but still relatively smooth.

6 Likes , 1 Comment

Josh Kelson

Was there a windsock?

1 year ago

Cody Dobson visited 1 year ago in a C172 with 8.50’s tires

The entire lakebed is dry but has larger cracks than I’ve seen other years. I’ve include a picture to illustrate. Several tricycle geared planes landed without issue including a Cessna 210.

2 Likes , 0 Comments

Todd Ison visited 1 year ago in a RANS S-7S with 29 tires

The general landing area, and parking area is all dry. Some small areas on the outskirts had standing water, some areas were darker in color, but actually looked mostly dry. But there is plenty of room to land, taxi, and park around the island etc. Ground is extremely firm in those areas. (Listed N/A on windsock, don't recall seeing it, but also didn't look for it, wind was obvious/strong out of the south.)

3 Likes , 1 Comment

Josh Kelson

hopefully the windsock is still there. I put one up about 8 months ago but haven't been back to check. it's on the top of the island.

1 year ago

Neil Amonson visited 1 year ago in a C182 with 850 x 10 tires

95% of the lake bed is flooded and covered in ice/mud/snow. A couple small spots to put a plane down on the edges. The dry spots were firm but anything dark or wet is sticky mud.

5 Likes , 0 Comments

Matthew Kalm visited 2 years ago in a RANS S-20 Raven with 26” tires

A lot of standing water around the area and around the island. A nice little area just in front of the island is dry and solid. Out side of that is hard but starting to get soft and tacky mud.

0 Likes , 0 Comments

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